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...Mooney transferred between semesters like all students who wish to move to another house. Transfer applications are due in early May and mid-January and students move into their new quarters at the start of the semester...
While this January, 75 percent of the students who applied for a transfer were allowed to make their proposed moves, only 22 percent were successful last fall. Every transfer was approved last January, while only 36 percent made the move in the fall of 1985, Colvin says...
Seniors receive priority to transfer, and a recently adopted rule requires sophomores to stay in their house for at least two semesters, says Winthrop House Assistant to the Master Kim E. Fraser. In the past, however, sophomores could transfer after just one semester. In January of 1984, 189 students--including 77 sophomores--requested a transfer. The following semester the College passed a rule that each person must stay in a house for at least two semesters before requesting a transfer...
After implementating the new rule, transfers dropped dramatically. The following January only 25 people applied for a transfer, according to Colvin. Even after adjustment for the absence of sophomores this represents a decrease of 77 percent in overall transfers...
Most of the people who transfer do so for specific reasons. Colvin says that the majority of applications have only one or two choices listed, indicating that students are more interested in moving into a new house than out of their old one. McNally says that most of the transfers she has seen in her eight years at Dunster House occur "because people want to move closer to their friends...